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www.filmcritic.com - : Almost a century before Hollywood perfected the endless repackaging of its stories across multiple media, H.G. Wells created War of the Worlds, which freaked out audiences as a magazine series, a novel, a panic-inducing radio play, a movie, and ultimately a stage musical. more...
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www.ew.com - : At a traffic intersection in blue-collar New Jersey, the pavement buckles and shakes, a church front shimmies away from its walls, and a dark metallic body that looks like a giant robot squid bursts, as if born, from the earth, rising up over the block with its trio of deadly tentacles, its plated pterodactyl head, its glowing spotlight eyes. Is it our imagination, or did this extraterrestrial machine-creature let out a deep, rumbling roar? Watching Steven Spielberg's spooky and playfully spectacular remake of War of the Worlds, you may feel a surge of childlike awe, the same sort of awe inspired by the nuclear-nightmare fantasies of the '50s the moment when the giant tarantula, the Tokyo lizard king, the hell-bent flying saucer...the thing, whatever it was, stood revealed. more...
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www.eonline.com - : War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing but a good couple of hours at the theater. Steven Spielberg takes H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi nightmare and...makes it scarier. Tom Cruise is a deadbeat-ish divorced dad watching his kids (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin) for the weekend when all hell breaks loose, and aliens start disintegrating humans (literally--and it looks really cool). In his Spielbergian way, Spielberg makes a moving family story out of the destruction. more...
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metromix.chicagotribune.com - : takes us on a wild journey through two sides of its supremely popular director: the dark and the light. more...
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movies.yahoo.com - : The film screams Spielberg. It transitions seamlessly from giant action to little more...
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